web01.fireside.fm Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:03:53 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Fintech Firsthand - Episodes Tagged with “Financial Institution” https://fintechfirsthand.fireside.fm/tags/financial%20institution Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:15:00 -0500 When bankers want to launch or grow BaaS or Fintech projects, they need access to peers – CEOs with firsthand experience – to reduce unknown unknowns. The hard part is finding them, and getting time on the calendar to learn from them. We’ve done that work for you. Erik Skovgard, a community bank CEO who helped launch Square, Acorns, and other prominent fintechs, interviews BaaS bankers to bring you their stories and experiences. en-us episodic A monthly masterclass in BaaS and fintech from fintech experts, fellow bankers, and solution providers. Fintech Firsthand When bankers want to launch or grow BaaS or Fintech projects, they need access to peers – CEOs with firsthand experience – to reduce unknown unknowns. The hard part is finding them, and getting time on the calendar to learn from them. We’ve done that work for you. Erik Skovgard, a community bank CEO who helped launch Square, Acorns, and other prominent fintechs, interviews BaaS bankers to bring you their stories and experiences. no fintech, banking, BaaS, banking technology, Fintech Firsthand matt.doffing@fintechfirsthand.com Bankwell's Ryan Hildebrand: What's Next for Banking as a Service? https://fintechfirsthand.fireside.fm/whatsnextforbankingasaservice 4c3e4b46-137c-4ade-9936-601fd15ccfcb Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:15:00 -0500 Fintech Firsthand full Fintech Firsthand How do bankers get started in banking as a service or embedded finance? Hear from Ryan Hildebrand, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Bankwell Bank, New Canaan, Conn., about the development of innovation in banking. We also learn about Bankwell's new fintech, Casca (cascading.ai), an AI-assisted loan origination system, and Ryan's perspective on the future of BaaS. 56:26 no In this episode Erik welcomes Ryan Hildebrand, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Bankwell Bank to talk about how he got started in banking as a service, Bankwell's new AI-assisted loan origination platform, and the future of banking as a service. Listen in for his firsthand experience: - Running fintech companies - The history of innovation in banking - Leading a banking-as-a-service division at a bank - Launching an AI-based service for loan origination - What the future of BaaS looks like We're excited to bring you this interesting dialogue on this developing sector of banking that's so critical for the future of the industry. Embedded finance, banking as a service, machine learning, AI, fast-follower, Bankwell, Y Combinator, compliance, Simple, Chime In this episode Erik welcomes Ryan Hildebrand, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Bankwell Bank to talk about how he got started in banking as a service, Bankwell's new AI-assisted loan origination platform, and the future of banking as a service.

Listen in for his firsthand experience:

  • Running fintech companies
  • The history of innovation in banking
  • Leading a banking-as-a-service division at a bank
  • Launching an AI-based service for loan origination
  • What the future of BaaS looks like

We're excited to bring you this interesting dialogue on this developing sector of banking that's so critical for the future of the industry.

]]> In this episode Erik welcomes Ryan Hildebrand, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Bankwell Bank to talk about how he got started in banking as a service, Bankwell's new AI-assisted loan origination platform, and the future of banking as a service.

Listen in for his firsthand experience:

  • Running fintech companies
  • The history of innovation in banking
  • Leading a banking-as-a-service division at a bank
  • Launching an AI-based service for loan origination
  • What the future of BaaS looks like

We're excited to bring you this interesting dialogue on this developing sector of banking that's so critical for the future of the industry.

]]> The Future of Core Banking and Embedded Finance https://fintechfirsthand.fireside.fm/future-for-core-banking-and-the-baas-ledgers 4708becb-978f-4bc8-bbb6-8c5dc88ef030 Fri, 03 May 2024 11:00:00 -0500 Fintech Firsthand full Fintech Firsthand In this episode, we talk with Itai Damti, CEO of Unit, about the history and future of embedded finance. In their early days, banking-fintech relationships required multifaceted innovation. Fintech products and services were already novel in some way, and then a bank and fintech would innovate again—through partnership—to bring those novel services to market. Itai and Erik talk about how technology is addressing what can become a friction-filled and clunky relationship. What does it mean for the future embedded finance or BaaS? 1:05:34 no Our guest is Itai Damti, CEO of Unit, founded in 2019. Unit now partners with about 200 customers ranging from public companies to start ups. Customers includes names like Invoice2Go (Bill.com), AngelList, Wix, Instawork, and more. In the past, banking institutions have faced an enourmous build-out in technnology and personnel in order to launch and manage an embedded finance – otherwise known as banking as a service – program. Just to build the technical foundation for tasks like reconciliation, end user indentification, compliance, statements, reporting, and fraud, an institution needed 20 or more solutions. In this episode we cover what limited the success of early fintech, why embedded finance became essential to fintech success, how innovation to serve institutions, and how fintech could redefine embedded finance's future. baas, embedded finance, financial institution, core banking, compliance, Unit, Invoice2Go (Bill.com), AngelList, Wix, Instawork Our guest is Itai Damti, CEO of Unit, founded in 2019. Unit now partners with about 200 customers ranging from public companies to start ups. Customers includes names like Invoice2Go (Bill.com), AngelList, Wix, Instawork, and more.

In the past, banking institutions have faced an enourmous build-out in technnology and personnel in order to launch and manage an embedded finance – otherwise known as banking as a service – program. Just to build the technical foundation for tasks like reconciliation, end user indentification, compliance, statements, reporting, and fraud, an institution needed 20 or more solutions.

In this episode we cover what limited the success of early fintech, why embedded finance became essential to fintech success, how innovation to serve institutions, and how fintech could redefine embedded finance's future.

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In the past, banking institutions have faced an enourmous build-out in technnology and personnel in order to launch and manage an embedded finance – otherwise known as banking as a service – program. Just to build the technical foundation for tasks like reconciliation, end user indentification, compliance, statements, reporting, and fraud, an institution needed 20 or more solutions.

In this episode we cover what limited the success of early fintech, why embedded finance became essential to fintech success, how innovation to serve institutions, and how fintech could redefine embedded finance's future.

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